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A26160	An Attestation to the testimony of our reverend brethren of the province of London to the truth of Jesus Christ, and to our Solemn League and Covenant as also against the errours, heresies, and blasphemies of these times, and the toleration of them, resolved on by the ministers of Cheshire, at their meeting May 2, and subscribed at their next meeting, June 6, 1648.		1648 (1648)	Wing A4161; ESTC R17649	58,802	68

inquit civibus Lond. ●●unciate Christum Dominum ●coelis descendisse cum ventilabro in manu sua ut judiceto●bem ibid. proclaime in the City of London that Christ the Lord meaning himselfe was come from heaven with his san in his hand to judge the world which hee averred with so much confidence (g) Quod si quis vos roget ubi sit dicite cum esse in aedibus Walkeri in fr●cto Angiportu si credere nolunt veniant huc me si possint occidant ibid. that hee had them tell where he lodged challenging them that would not beleeve him to come thither and kill him if they could And when for his blasphemous arrogance against God and his sonne Christ Jesus and many seditious and disloyall expressions of his spight and contempt of the Queen he was brought to condigne and capitall punishment while he was under the hands of the Executioner (h) Blasphemo ore Deo minitans nis● praesens au●llium ei mitteres ibid. p. 50. he was not afraid to threaten God himselfe if hee did not send present helpe for his deliverance (i) Caind Hist of Q Eliz. p. 403. Being condemned hee was laid upon an hurdle and drawne to the chiefe street of the City incessantly rearing out with a dreadfull sound Iehova Messias behold the heaven the heaven open behold the Sonne of the most High descending downe to deliver me At the Gallowes being admonished to acknowledge his sinne against God and the Queen the execrable wretch inveighing most contumeliously against the Queen cryed out with a Stentors voice O heavenly God Almighty Iehovah Alpha and Omega Lord of Lords King of Kings God everlasting thou knowest that I am the true Iehovah whom thou hast sent shew some miracle out of the cloud to convert these insidells and take me from mine enemies But if not I tremble to speak it * Saith the forecited authour who reports it I will set the heavens on fire and with these hands plucke thee out of thy throne and other speeches he used more unspeakable Turning him to the Hang-man as he was putting the rope to him Thou Bastard said he wilt thou hang Hacket thy King having the rope about his neck he lift up his eyes and grinning said Dost thou repay mee this for a Kingdome I come to revenge it Besides these homebred perturbers of the progresse of Religion in the way towards a more perfect reformation there came some forainers from Holland a Countrey as Camd. censures it fruitfull (k) Ibid p. 218. of hereticks who under a shew of singular integrity and sanctity insinuated themselves into the ignorant vulgar people and then distilled into their mindes damnable heresies mnifestly repugnant to the Christian faith by a portentous strange kind of speaking most contrary to the Christian profession which men might rather admire then understand These named themselves the family of Love or house of Charity They perswaded their followers that those onely were elected and to be saved which were admitted into that family and all the rest reprobates and to be damned and that it was lawfull for them to deny upon their oath before a Magistrate whatsoever they list or before any other which was not of their family of this fanaticall vanity they dispersed bookes among their followers translated out of the Dutch tongue into English which they entituled the Gospel of the Kingdome Documentall sentences the prophecies of the spirit of Love the publishing of peace upon earth The Author H. N. whose name at length they cold by no means be perswaded to reveal yet it was found afterward to bee Henry Nicolai of Leiden Who with blasphemous mouth gave out that hee did partake of God and God of his humanity SECT V. THe fourth State or time of Reformation is that which at present is pestered with so many errors heresies and blasphemies concerning which your Catalogue of them will save us the labour of the like account which concerning others wee have brought in From such unsound Divinity such brain-ficke blasphemie such a fruitfull harvest of the Tares of heresie as have most abounded in these times wherein Reformation was to be set up and former swarvings from Religion and reason to be silenced and suppressed will fairly follow that which may confirme our faith in the word of God and may conforme our affections to a better liking of Religion in that edition of it corrected and amended which now is offered to the acceptance of all well-minded people As First That herein we see by experience the proof of the Apostles prediction that there m●●t be heresies that those which are approved may be manifest 1 Cor. 11.19 And that they also may be discovered who are tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine Eph. 4.14 And in respect of some who ●et themselves against the truth and settle their resolutions to oppose it that of the same Apostle may verified God shall send them strong de●●●ions that they should beleeve a lye that all might be damned which 〈◊〉 not the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousnesse 2 Thes 2.12 Secondly That these heresies are as the Apostle calls them the Doctrines of Devills 1 Tim. 4.1 First Because many of them are so absurdly impious as to be clearly contradictorie to the light not only of holy Scriptures but of humane nature Secondly Because though many of them were ancient yet hereticks of later times have revived them not only by reading for the leaders of many among them were altogether i●●iterate but by the instinct of Satan as (l) See Cal● his 3. Ch. of his instr adv lib. p. 434 435. Calvin well observeth in his instruction against the Libertines of his time who though they agreed with many of the ancient hereticks Cerd● Marcion the Gnosticks and Manichees yet (m) Hi quidem homines indocti sunt ac idiotae qui non usque adeo evolvendis chartis funt exercitati ut ex tis deliria sua addiscere po●uerint nec veri simile est ipsos scire ullam unquam de his mentionē babitam fuisse sed idem magister qui veteres illos haereticos olim suscitara● ●adem d●ctrina istos imbuere p●test qua● illos instr●ce●at ibid. c. 1. p. 434. col 1. being unlearned idiots as he calleth them and not acquainted with bookes or writings they did not draw their dotages from them nor is it like they had any mention of them but that the same master the devil who stirred up the hereticks of old did instill the like doctrine into these new disciples Thirdly Because he knoweth better then any Matchiovillian Politician how to make use of division among men especially Christians to serve to his greatest advantage and his advantage is to make some of a wrong Religion some to stand at a gaze as an ignorant travailer where many wayes meet and to make choise of no Religion and some who have mischosen the

AN ATTESTATION TO THE Testimony of our reverend Brethren of the Province of LONDON To the Truth of JESUS CHRIST and to our SOLEMN LEAGUE and COVENANT AS ALSO Against the Errours Heresies and Blasphemies of these Times and the Toleration of them Resolved on by the Ministers of Cheshire at their meeting May 2. and subscribed at their next Meeting June 6. 1648. Now I beseech you Brethren by the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ that ye all speak the same things and that there be no divisions among you but that ye be perfectly joyned together in the same minde and in the same judgment 1 Cor. 1.10 Sunt qui quod sentiant etiamsi optimum sit tamenn invidiae metu non audent dicere Cicer. de Offic. l. 1. p. 362. edit Lutet 1554. Patiemúrne igitur extingui aut opprimi veritatem ego verò libentius vel sub hoc onere defecerim Lact. de Opificio Dei c. 21. p. 808. edit Lugdun 1594. London Printed by R. Cotes for Christopher Meredith at the Crane in Pauls-church-yard 1648. AN ATTESTATION Of the MINISTERS of CHESHIRE To the TESTIMONY of the Reverend Brethren of the Province of London TO THE Truth of JESVS CHRIST And to our Solemn League and Covenant As also Against ERROVRS c. SECT I. Reverend and Well-beloved Brethren WEE cannot but apprehend it as an especiall providence of God that so many godly and faithfull Ministers of Christ in the Countrey partly drawn together by authority of Parliament to make up the Assembly of Divines at Westminster and partly driven to London as to a City of refuge for safety and succour from the violence and outrage of the adverse party have been lawfully allowed and have frequently injoyed many opportunities for communication of counsells and contribution of indeavours to carry on the Covenanted Reformation towards an happy conclution which are like to be frustrate of much of the fruit and good effect desired by them unlesse there be a consciencious concurrence of your other brethren who upon the same principles and interests stand deeply ingaged with you earnestly to contend for the faith which was once delivered to the Saints as just occasion is offered to shew themselves not only resolute Protestants for it but religious Detestants against all errors heresies and blasphemies which are contrary to it Wherein though you have precedency before us and advantage above us both for intelligence and accommedation of convening and consequently for consultation consent and publication of what you resolve on we meant at least some of us from the first view of your printed Testimony to the Truth of Jesus Christ you should not therein bee singular without us And now all of us whose names are subscribed doe freely and publickly professe both how far and upon what grounds and reasons we give our Attestation to the contents of your booke forementioned and first how far wee doe it and for that First We wel like the latitude of your generall Title in that it speaks against errours heresies and blasphemies and for that in the particular Titles all along your booke you use the word errour only and adde not the other words heresie and blasphemy though many of the positions recited by you be materially both hereticall and blasphemous wherein wee conceive you have been discreetly cautelous to prevent exception for there is great doubt much dispute and difficultie to determine what heresie is and what opinion is hereticall Thence it is that (a) Epiph. An. 370. Ephanius and (b) Phil. An. 380. Philastrius who both of them wrote of heresies before (c) Aug. An. 420. Augustine agree not in their Catalogue for the one accounts those tenents to be heresies which the other doth not And that (d) Bellarm. de Christo lib. 2. c. 19. Tom. 1. p. 132 133. Bellarmine doth acquit Calvin from the heresie charged upon him by Genebrard for teaching that Christ is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But though it may be questioned of many opinions whether they be heresies or no it may bee manifest enough that they be errours Secondly We approve that you passe your consine upon heresies in abstract● as Epiphanius Philastrius Augustine Alphonsus à Castro not upon Hereticks in Concret● as (e) Adversus hujus temporis haereticos Bell. in title page of his disputations Bellarmine doth who entitles his disputations not against the Heresies but the Hereticks of these times For that is farre more difficult to determine then the other What makes an Hereticke cannot as I conceive at all or very hardly be comprehended in a regular definition said (f) Quid facit haereticum regulari quadam definitione comprehendi sicut ego existimo aut omnino non potest aut difficillime p●test Aug. de Haeres ad quod vult Deum Tom. 6. p. 11. Augustine many a hundred yeers agoe The modern Arminians say as much or more viz. (g) Sciri hodie non posse quis sit haereticus So the Arminians Apud Nicol. Vedel part 4. defens Arcani Armin. lib. 1. cap. 2. p. 3. that it cannot be knowne in these times who is an Heretick but they are the lesse to be beleeved because of more light in latter times for the discovery of truth and error then in the ages more remote Yet is there great difficultie and by reason thereof there may bee much deceit and errour in an inconsiderate application of the word Hereticke though to a man of erroneous opinion yea though grossely erroneous This difficultie was the cause that some of the Antients who wrote against Hereticks were numbred with Hereticks themselves as (h) Bellarmine in effect calls Tertullian heretick when he saith Tertullianum inter Catholicos non numeramus Bellarm. de poenit l. 1. c. 1. Tom. 3. p. 377. col 1. Tertullian (i) Epiphan Haeres 64. in a Synod of Alexandria an 399 vide Fran. Long. sum concil p. 324. and 325. and Origen and that some of those who wrote of heresies since them have (k) Bernard Lutzenburg misere errasse qui Catalogum Haereticorum describens aliquos recenset qui nunquam in fide catholica fuerunt Alphon. a castro Adversus haeres lib. 1. c. 9. f. 23. p. 6. as Alphonsus a Castro writeth of Bernard Lutzenburg bren miserably mistaken in taking those for hereticks who were not and so came (l) Epiphan haeres 75. Aerius to be listed in the black-bill of heretickes for denying the distinction betwixt a Bishop and a Presbyter And for the same opinion in kind though differing in degree was (m) Marc. Anton. De Dom. Spalat de repub Eccles l. 2. c. 3. p. 240. Hierom taken for an Aerian Hereticke by Michael Medina but foolishly and ignorantly saith the (n) Deseruimus in hac parte Hieronym Sed non propterea stulte imperite quod facit Michael Medina illum Hereticum facimus Aerianum M. Anton. de Dom. Arch. Spalat ubi supra Arch-bishop of Spalat